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Marijuana Now The Most Popular Drug in the World
Posted by CN Staff on June 29, 2012 at 12:41:43 PT
By Eliana Dockterman 
Source: Time 
USA -- According to a U.N. report on global drug use, cannabis was the world’s most widely produced, trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010. Marijuana boasts somewhere between 119 million and 224 million users in the adult population of the world (18 or older). And there are no signs to indicate the popularity of marijuana will fall anytime soon. Cannabis is consumed in some fashion in all countries, the report says, and it is grown in most. Though the use of the drug is stabilizing in North America, and Oceania, smoking pot is on the rise in West and Central Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia and Central Asia.
In 2010, marijuana use was most prevalent in Australia and New Zealand. The U.S. and Canada came in second, followed by Spain, France, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Nigeria, Zambia, and Madagascar were tied for fourth place. The U.N. report also noted shifts in cultural trends. Some interesting standouts: The European market is moving away from cannabis resin (hashish) and towards the herb, which is more popular in America; cannabis became Afghanistan’s most lucrative cash crop in 2010, replacing heroin; and the marijuana seed market grew immensely from 2008 to 2010, with 100 to 200 brands available online when the report was written. The U.N. also reported that cannabis is becoming more potent in developed countries. The popularization of hydroponic cultivation, a method that uses mineral nutrient solutions to grow plants in water without soil, means marijuana is a) more likely to be grown indoors and b) stronger than traditionally grown plants. But beware of marijuana imitations. Or imitations of any drug, really. New chemically engineered substances are popping up all across the world (see bath salts), and weed is no exception to the trend. Synthetic cannabinoids that emulate the effects of weed but contain uncontrolled products have been detected since 2008 in herbal smoking blends.Source: Time Magazine (US)Author: Eliana Dockterman Published: June 29, 2012Copyright: 2012 Time Inc.Contact: letters time.comWebsite: http://www.time.com/time/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/70GzTgbiCannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml 
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Comment #6 posted by runruff on July 02, 2012 at 05:58:54 PT
Most addictive drug?
It might be a pill but I know that coke, meth and heroin are very addictive to many.I know that cannabis is an herb not a drug.The most addictive "thing" in the world may be TV. If you are a regular user, try going a month or two week without it. You will soon discover your level of addiction to the tube. My wife and I watch TV but we try to keep our hands busy with some chore or project. Two years ago I produced a crop of herb that went over 40 pounds. We spent a great deal of that winter trimming and curing the herb. TV makes this job so much easier.Addiction is a personal thing. What may be addictive to you, maybe not for me? Some folks don't seem to get addicted to anything. The WoD has been grossly misunderstood. We should have taken a medical approach to addiction and additive personalities. This would have gone a long way to help many people which is why the Wod was done "Backward on Purpose" like everything federal.
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Comment #5 posted by Canis420 on July 01, 2012 at 19:12:53 PT:
 Marijuana Now The Most Popular Drug in the World
I doubt Cannabis is more popular than alcohol, tobacco and coffee
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Comment #4 posted by The GCW on July 01, 2012 at 11:55:45 PT
John Tyler,
Why is it so popular???It also doesn't screw Us up so damn bad. Like booze (which I like). I remember when I was a teen ager trying booze and then trying cannabis. The prohibitionists had a loud voice: marajuanamarijuanamarijuana is evilevilevil. Then when I tried cannabis, right away, I started realizing cannabis is not nearly as harmful as the booze. But I kept hearing how bad the green plant was so I questioned My thought about how it was not nearly so bad. After using cannabis and booze a little bit, each. I FINALLY QUIT QUESTIONING THE REALITY !!! CANNABIS IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY. Except the IGNOIDS will cage and kill you for using that which is good and better.I hope the IGNOIDS pay for their evil deeds.Prohibitionists are the bad people.
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Comment #3 posted by John Tyler on July 01, 2012 at 10:36:28 PT
why is it so popular?
It took two years to release the report. Why did it take so long? I didn’t see anything about why it is so popular. The prohibitionist can’t seem to figure that one out, can they? They don’t like it, so they figure everyone should think like them, right? They can’t even justify why it should be illegal in the first place. (but that is another story)I will help the prohibitionists out here. Cannabis has gained a worldwide popularity because it is good and is good for you. It will grow just about anywhere. If you can grow your own, it is inexpensive too. Boiled down, it is good, grows anywhere, inexpensive. What is not to like?
The prohibitionists’ types are going to have to get over it.If I may paraphrase Longfellow’s 1855 poem, The Peace Pipe, “Smoke the pipe of peace together and as brothers live hence forward”.
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Comment #2 posted by HempWorld on June 29, 2012 at 14:57:58 PT
More...
"In 2010, marijuana use was most prevalent in Australia and New Zealand. The U.S. and Canada came in second, followed by Spain, France, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Nigeria, Zambia, and Madagascar were tied for fourth place."Not according to the NationMaster Stats (see link below).Ok, so what we can easily see is that cannabis is most widely used, in countries where it is prohibited with fervor. Also, these are all commonwealth countries/anglo saxons. And this is where Rocky came in, see Rockefeller drug laws in New York.
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Comment #1 posted by HempWorld on June 29, 2012 at 14:49:20 PT
"cannabis was the world’s most widely produced,
trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010."Amen!Except, of course, cannabis is a plant not a drug.What can you expect from a Rockefeller owned paper that choose Hitler as "Man of the Year" in 1938 on its front cover?Yeah, imitations are due to prohibition. Prohibition is a model that NEVER worked and always induced crime and corruption, exactly as the master (Rocky) ordered!Here is a top-25 of cannabis consuming countries in the world:
top-25 of cannabis consuming countries!
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